name
Dzawindi
dzah-WEEN-dee
dzɑˈwiːndiːListen
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Syllable breakdown
Dzawindi
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Mixtec (Mexico)
- Meaning
- a Mixtec feminine name from the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca, drawing on the phonological system of Mixtec — a tonal Oto-Manguean language with a complex system of tonal contrasts that distinguish meaning; the Mixtec civilisation produced some of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian manuscripts in the Americas, the screenfold books known as codices that record royal genealogies, ritual calendars, and cosmological narratives in a pictographic writing system; a daughter named Dzawindi carries the sound-world of an ancient language that survived Spanish colonialism and continues to be spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico and its diaspora
- Gender
- female
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